Breathing

One of my friends keeps reminding me to breathe. I hadn’t realized that I’d been holding my breath but looking back on the past couple of weeks, I realize I had been. Yesterday I was finally able to inhale and exhale fully and finally the tears came.

Since I view nature as my wisest teacher and the components of nature  as my friends, hearing that twenty sea turtles were seen dead on a beach in Louisiana broke me and I wept for their suffering. I wept for the hole they leave and for the many other innocent creatures whose only mistake was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

For the ignorance of the humans that create such possibility for disasters, I weep. For the greed and short-signtedness of all of us who, in some way, allowed this to happen, I weep.

My prayer is for the consciousness of all of us to expand and rise up so there is a massive jump forward in our collective ability to love and care for our planet. I believe we can do it and in the process create a better world.